Support the Catamount Trail – Race to the Top of VT

How about a little boost your fitness as another ski season nears?
This coming August 29, 2010, please come out and support Vermont’s Catamount Trail Association, by running, mountain biking, or non-competitively hiking up Vermont’s Mount Mansfield as part of the 3rd Annual Race to the Top of Vermont. Proceeds from this event will benefit [...]

Photo of the Week: A Three Sandwich Day

You know you are in for a great adventure – at least you had better be – when you prepare and pack three sandwiches for your ski pack. This particular sandwich making session was followed by a ski tour that kicked off around dinner time, carried us through the midnight hours and didn’t land us [...]

Photo of the Week: Crust Cruising

One of the great things about a little rainfall in the middle of February is that it sometime leads to the formation of a nice supportive crust atop the snowpack. If we’ve got a good base to work with, this can be especially fun, as the crust allows you to go nearly anywhere, and [...]

Surfing Arctic Norway

We recently stumbled upon this terrific short film about Arctic Norway – produced from a surfer’s perspective. It features some of the same mountain areas that we explored by bicycle and skis this past spring. Whether you enjoy surfing or not, we think you’ll enjoy this! – Brian and Emily

Photo of the Week: Cold, Refreshing Winter

As much as we love the tropical heat and humidity that has settled upon the Northeast this past week, it’s also nice to take a break from it by letting our imaginations run in an image like this… We hope this image cools you down as much as it does for us. (Click on [...]

Monthly Gear Giveaway – June/July: Skiing Animals?

Congrats to Jason Starr of Burlington, VT for coming up with the closest guess in our April/May contest…
For June/July…Be the first to name the three animals that we see most in the mountain environment and season featured in this photo, and win a pair of Darn Tough socks! One guess, listing only three animals, per [...]

Photo of the Week: Red, White and Blue

Skier Ian Forgays enjoys a blue sky powder day at treeline in Vermont’s Green Mountains.
Happy 4th everyone!